Notes and News

The structure of lead sulphate (PbSO4, anglesite) is H2 type orthorhombic, Pbnm, Z = 4 (James & Wood, 1925; Basche & Mark, 1926). The present work on PbPO3F was undertaken to determine the relation between the two structures. Crystals of PbPO3F were donated by Dr D.G. Rands of the Chemistry Department. Weissenberg and oscillation photographs and filtered Mo K~ radiation were used to obtain approximate cell dimensions from which high angle spots on oscillation photographs could be indexed. Position measurements of these spots were then used to calculate more accurate cell dimensions, with which lines on the powder photograph were indexed. The following systematic absences were observed: h+ 1 odd for hOl reflections and k odd for Okl reflections. These absences are consistent with the space groups Pbn21 [equivalent to Pna21 (cgv, no.33)] and Pbnm [equivalent to Pnma (D~ 6, no. 62)]. The cell dimensions were also calculated from powder data obtained from a 114.6 mm diameter powder camera with the film mounted in the Straumanis arrangement using filtered Cu K~ radiation (;t= 1.5418/~). No film shrinkage or absorption correction was made, owing to the scarcity of high angle lines. However, powder data for ammonium chloride indicated a film expansion during processing of only one part in 104 which is less than the standard deviation in the cell dimensions. The values obtained were: a = 6.951 +_0.015, b=8.521 +0-012, c= 5.470+ 0.010 ]k. The density was measured by the displacement method to be 6.15_+ 0.15 g.cm-3 which agrees with the calculated density of 6-24 g.cm-3 within experimental error. Since the unit cell of lead sulphate was given as: a = 6"93, b=8"45, c= 5.38 A, and powder photographs of the two substances were similar, it is concluded that the structure of lead fluorophosphate is probably the same as that of lead sulphate. Bengtsson (1941) has reached the same conclusion for the corresponding barium compounds, although he mentions also the existence of a monoclinic form of BaPO3F. In the present work no indication of a monoclinic form has been found.

UNESCO has announced an international seminar on the role of museums in education, to be held at the Brooklyn Museum from Sept. 14 to Oct. 12. The number of participants is limited to 45, one person from each member state, but provision has been made for attendance by observers from international organizations in fields of art, science, and education.
A new medium for the publication of scholarly papers has been launched, under the title of "The Annals of American Research," by the Public Affairs Press in Washington. Inquiries should be addressed to the Editor, Annals of American Research, 2153 Florida Ave., N. W., Washington, D.C. (do not submit manuscripts without prior correspondence).
The Western States Branch of the American Anthropological Association has published News Bulletin No. 1, 1952, prepared and distributed by the group at Stanford, including information on activities of the Anthropology Departments of Stanford University and the University of Utah. In the American Anthropological Association News Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 3, July 1952, there are full statements of important new developments in anthropology at the University of Colorado and University of Arizona.
As of July 1, the National Park Service took over direct supervision of the River Basin archaeological salvage program, outside the Missouri Basin, instead of transfering the funds obtained for this work to the Smithsonian Institution, as heretofore. The Smithsonian Institution will continue to handle the tremendous Missouri Basin project, and will also do certain specific jobs in the eastern U.S. (surveys, by Carl Miller, working out of Washington). Three field offices of the River Basin Surveys have been transferred from the Smithsonian Institution, accordingly, to the National Park Serviceat Georgia (Joseph Caldwell), Austin,-Texas (Edward B. Jelks), and Portland, Oregon (Joel Shiner). A splendid editorial by Carl Chapman on the importance and urgency of the River Basin archaeological salvage program appeared in the Missouri Archaeological Society News Letter, No. 56, Feb., 1952. The date for the Tenth Plains Conference for Archaeology has not been set but an informal poll of field workers indicates that a date late in November, 1952, would be satisfactory.

EARLY MAN
The second year of excavation at the Lind Coulee site, which is located in the arid Columbia Basin region of central Washington, is being carried on under a grant from the National Park Service to the State College of Washington (Pullman), Richard Daugherty reports.
Lind Coulee, which would be called an arroyo in the Southwest, is a meandering gully with nearly vertical walls averaging nearly 20 feet in height. Its seasonal stream cuts its way through Pleistocene basalts and sands and recent sands, silts and loess until it terminates in the drainage of lower Crab Creek. The occurrence of several artifacts, flint chips, and bone fragments protruding from the eroding coulee wall evidenced the 189 [2, 1952 existence of the site. At several points, lenses of fireblackened earth were visible.
The excavations of" 1951 produced more than 100 artifacts plus quantities of cultural refuse, including chipping debris, and burned and unburned bone fragments. A number of the partially mineralized bone fragments were identifiable, bison being most plentiful. None of the fragments of bison bones were of sufficiently diagnostic value to make species identification possible. At the present writing more than 200 artifacts have been found plus additional cultural debris. Included in the types of artifacts are long-stemmed projectile points, flake knives, flake scrapers, keeled scrapers, choppers, retouched flakes, 3 bone shafts, a serrated bone spear point, a small grinding stone with red ocher on it, and associated with the grinding stone a small hand stone, also with ocher on it.
Preliminary geological investigations strongly suggest that the Lind Coulee site might be the first "early man" site found in Washington. Results of radiocarbon tests on bone materials have not yet been received.
A very extensive preceramic site in Ontario, near Sheguindah on Manitoulin Island in the north of Georgian Bay, recently discovered and currently being investigated by Thomas E. Lee of the Canadian National Museum, is reported in the New York Times of July 6, 1952. Large quantities of stone implements have been found; the material is apparently much later than that of the well-known Killarney site. CALIFORNIA W. J. Wallace reports that a rock-shelter in southern Ventura County, previously unstudied, was recently examined and the pictographs on the ceiling recorded by a group from the Department of Anthropology of the University of Southern California. A report on the pictographs is being prepared.
A group of major students under Wallace's direction are preparing a report on the excavation of the Little Sycamore site, also in southern Ventura County, which was excavated by a U.S.C. class in archaeological field techniques during the spring. Several additional sites in Little Sycamore Canyon were to be mapped and tested during the summer.
Charles Rozaire is handling a salvage job on a large site at Encino in the San Fernando Valley. The site, reportedly a historic one, will soon be destroyed to make way for a golf-course clubhouse. It is littered with manos and metates, hammerstones, and crude core tools. Volunteer help from U.C.L.A., U.S.C, and the Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California, has assisted, Wallace adds.
An interesting site near Temecula in Riverside County is being excavated by E. B. McCown for the Archaeological Survey Association. A quantity of artifacts and a Spanish adobe structure have been found.
Wallace also kindly informs us that Al Mohr excavated in a large site in the Cachuma Reservoir area in Santa Barbara County for the River Basin Surveys dur-ing May of this year, and returned in the summer to continue the work. A large house pattern was unearthed, and artifacts which indicate that the site contains both Hunting and Canalino components. Personnel /assisting included students from U.S.C, U.C.L.A., and U . C (Berkeley).
For a really interesting report in California archaeology, interpreting Phil C Orr's findings on Santa Rosa Island, the Associate Editor cannot resist referring you back to Time for Feb., 4, 1952, as well as Orr's "Review of Santa Barbara Channel Archaeology," SWJA 8-2, Summer 1952, pp. 211-226.

NORTHERN PLAINS
Eight archaeological River Basin Surveys (Smithsonian Institution) parties, as well as one palaeontological, were in the field in the Missouri River basin during June and July  ' SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA. Investigations were carried on for the River Basin Surveys by Carl F. Miller of the Smithsonian Institution at the Buggs Island Reservoir (now renamed the John H. Kerr Reservoir), on the Roanoke River in southern Virginia, from April 17 to June 30. At one of the seven sites tested, stratigraphic material was found beginning with a late preceramic period and terminating sometime during the middle period of Woodland. Associated with the latter were 2 completely flexed burials accompanied by turtle carapaces. Miller had found a similar association during his previous work there, and in no case did the position of the carapaces indicate use as food containers.

FLORIDA. The University of Florida continued its survey activity on the Florida Gulf Coast in Levy County.
A series of small Weeden Island shell mounds were found along the shore. With few exceptions they are mainly eroded away by wave action. Some test excavations were made in a rich but badly pothunted Weeden Island burial mound (Lv 2).
Other excavations were made in eastern Florida at Jones Creek near Jacksonville. This is an occupation site of the Orange Period carrying over into St. Johns la. It is remarkable for the strong Georgia influence in the latter occupation. Deptford and Savannah (?) pottery types were very important.
Glenn Allen, a student at Florida State University, is doing archaeological work on the northwest coast of Florida. To date excavations have been made on Dog Island and St. George Island.
John M. Goggin's monograph "Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archeology, Florida" was published early in August in the Yale Publications in Anthropology. It interprets and summarizes data on 432 archeological sites ranging from paleo-Indian to historic periods.

GEORGIA. Excavations being carried out by Sheila Kelly
Caldwell, at Darien (noted in ,the July issue of American Antiquity) were continued. A considerable number of postholes indicates buildings but their pattern has yet to be worked out. Of interest is what appears to be a small diamond-shaped structure (tower?) along a major wall line. The main part of the site, though, is clearly historic Indian with Spanish contacts, very possibly a mission. Goggin dates it, on the basis of Spanish majolica found, as being circa 1600-1650. Lewis H. Larsen, Jr., on behalf of the Georgia Historical Commission, is tackling, with success, the old problem of Spanish missions in coastal Georgia. Over a dozen sites have been found with Spanish pottery. That which can be dated is placed in the first half of the seventeenth century.
The historic Cherokee site of Tugaloo is being excavated under the supervision of William Edwards.
William Sears, University of Georgia, is continuing work at Kolomoki State Park. During this season he excavated mound F and mound B. The former contained only a small platform mound, evidently used for only a brief period. Mound B contained only a collection of large postholes scattered in a rather random fashion. The mound seems to have resulted from earth piled around the base of these poles.
LOUISIANA. James Ford excavated several test trenches in the Poverty Point site during May. As recently reported (American Antiquity, Vol. 18, No. 1, p. 96) there is a series of large concentric earthworks, octagonal in shape, and about 3 A mile in diameter. Centering on one of the sides of the octagon is one of the two large Poverty Point mounds, 70 feet in height and roughly "T" shaped. Apparently all this construction took place in prepottery times. Both in the ridges of the octagon and in the mound fill are found Poverty Point baked-clay objects in great number. In certain localized areas are found innumerable Jaketown "perforators." The prospect of correlating the age of the construction with history of the Mississippi drainage is seen in that an old channel of the Arkansas River has cut away a portion of the octagon. The results of this excavation are to be incorporated into the report on the Jaketown site by Ford, Philip Phillips, and William Haag, which was to go to press in September.
MISSOURI. The field school of the University of Missouri, directed by Carl Chapman, worked in the Table  Rock Reservoir area, southwestern Missouri, in June and July, finding three occupations ranging from an archaic horizon to one comparable to Middle Mississippi.
OKLAHOMA. The field school of the University of Oklahoma, directed by R. E. Bell, carried on further salvage excavations, under a research contract with the National Park Service, at site 39 in the Tenkiller Ferry reservoir, eastern Oklahoma, during June and July. Forty flexed burials were found, a house and parts of two others, and minor features. A variety of stone and bone implements was found, and both shell-tempered and clay-tempered pottery. A preceramic archaic horizon is also found in the underlying clay layer. Bell now feels that the relationship of the upper deposits to the Turkey Bluff focus does not appear to be as close as has previously been suggested. A. V. Kidder was general chairman of the conference and presided over two sessions in which reports on the results of summer excavations, and other current archeological work, were given. Fred Eggan and W. W. Hill presided at ethnological report sessions. One morning was devoted to discussions of culture classifications, with Jame B. Griffin presiding. After a review of the original Pecos Classification developed in 1927, and the later Hohokam and Mogollon sequences, Martin and Rinaldo's "The Southwestern Co-tradition" (SWJA 7-3, Autumn 1951, pp. 215-229) and Daifuku's "A New Conceptual Scheme for Prehistoric Cultures in the Southwestern United States" (Amer. Anthrop. 52-2, April 1952, pp., 191-200) were discussed at length. Much interest in the new classifications was evinced by those anthropologists engaged in teaching and museum interpretation, who felt they represented useful attempts at synthesis of available data. Further definition of Southwestern cultural areas was deemed necessary, and H. S. Colton was asked to appoint a committee to define areas and make further recommendations on these culture classifications at the next conference.
The antiquity of maize in the Southwest and the varieties found were briefly reviewed. Similarities and differences in the corn from Bat Cave and Tularosa Cave were discussed by Herbert Dick and John Rinaldo, and a report by Volney Jones on corn from Earl Morris' Durango Basketmaker sites was read by Griffin.
In honor of A. V. Kidder and the 25th anniversary of the original Pecos Conference, the Museum of New Mexico entertained the conferees at a picnic lunch at Pecos Pueblo. Dr. Kidder was presented with a miniature silver trowel engraved with the words "Pecos Conference, 1927Conference, -1952  Large rubbish sites, 50 by 100 meters or larger, are common on the islands of the Sao Francisco River above Petrolandia and on the western slopes of a number of ranges of hills on the Pernambuco side. They are marked by abundant surface sherds in the manioc patches of the present Indian inhabitants. Large burial urns, some containing bone fragments and others cremations, are commonly found in these sites. There are a lot of caves in the area, but only one, a burial cave at Itaparica dug many years ago by Carlos Estevao, is known to contain ancient remains. Bed rock mortars and metates are very common, sometimes as many as 50 occurring together. Pictographs are very abundant and consist mostly of simple geometric designs in white, red, yellow or black; as many as three of these colors may be used together in one figure.
The pottery is well fired, and of varying thickness and fineness of finish. It is generally sand tempered. Large pots and big squsye bowls (locally called alguidares) are common shapes. The finer pieces are painted with red or white lines; other sherds have punctations, thumb nail impressions, corrugations, and cord or textile impressions as decoration. Decorated sherds run to only about a third of the total found. Clay pipes are very abundant. The commonest are elbow pipes, often anthropomorphic and showing the old style Indian crown-cut headdress. Tubular pipes and platform pipes are also found.
Stonework consists mostly of axes; plain, three quarter grooved, and modified anchor shapes are all found. The slab mortars used by the modern Indians are probably reused archaeological specimens. Beads of clay, bird bones, or snake ribs are found in the burial urns.
There is some evidence that part of the archaeological material is post contact. The Fulnio Indians report finding coins in some of the alguidares found in their territory, and many of the pipes have Christian crosses as part of the decoration. The area looks like a very promising one from the point of view of the possibility of establishing an archaeological chronology.
PERU. John Rowe, Assistant Editor for South America, attended the Wenner-Gren Symposium, and worked in the museums and libraries of New York, New Haven, Cambridge and Philadelphia on various Peruvian problems. The museum work was largely concerned with keros, the lacquered wooden cups which are such a characteristic feature of Inca art (cf. S. Linne, Ethnos, 1949:118-139). There is no direct evidence for dating these objects, since the known specimens were not excavated in archaeological context but purchased from descendants of the original owner, usually by dealers who kept no provenience record. Some inferences as to date can be made from the style and the motives of the designs, however. The lacquered style begins about the time of the Spanish conquest and lasts into the seventeenth century and very probably as late as the eighteenth. Earlier pieces have stiffer and less crowded designs, while in later ones the designs are freer and show a variety of scenes of Colonial life and Inca legend. One fine piece in the American Museum of Natural History has a scene identified by J. B. Bird as a battle between the forces of Huascar and Atahuallpa, while a specimen at Yale shows the capture of Huascar.
Junius Bird and his staff at the American Museum of Natural History have reorganized a large part of the Peruvian pottery exhibit, and one of the new cases displays a very ingenious reclassification of Nazca pottery which may well prove to be the key to the spatial and temporal divisions within the style. Bird has set aside the widely used Gayton-Kroeber classification into subtypes labelled A, B and Y, presumed to follow one another in that order. His new arrangement envisages a "Cat-demon" style (Gayton-Kroeber A and part of B) existing beside and contemporary with a "Cactus Man" style (part of B and some other materials). After a period of independent existence, the two styles merge. Still later, and growing out of the' merged style, is a derived style showing Tiahuanaco influence (roughly the Gayton-Kroeber Y). The equivalences given here with the Gayton-Kroeber classification are actually somewhat misleading, as Bird's classificatory criteria are entirely different and the two systems are not properly comparable. Bird's Nazca classification still needs much testing, but it is the most promising development in the Nazca problem in many years, and any Peruvianist who can make an opportunity to study the new exhibit should do so and give the matter some thought.
Richard P. Schaedel reports from Lima that a new Peruvian law provides for some decentralization of the government supervision of archaeological excavation in favor of the newly established regional museum and research center at lea. The administrator of this center will have effective control over arrangements for excavations on the south Coast, and as the lea authorities are eager to see some scientific archaeology done in their area, they would welcome proposals from qualified archaeologists for new field work in their jurisdiction. Schaedel, whose current address is Gonzales Larranaga 122, Miraflores, Lima, Peru, will be glad to furnish further details to anyone interested.
PANAMA. Gordon R. Willey, J. N. East, and C. R. McGimsey, all of Peabody Museum, Harvard University, excavated several sites in western Panama during the period of January through April, 1952. In this work Willey was following up leads from the 1948 Smithsonian expedition into the same area, in which he had participated. The Monagrillo shell mound at the mouth of the Parita River was thoroughly excavated with a large yield of Monagrillo style pottery and numerous ground and chipped stone tools. Small camp sites of Code, or Cocle-related culture, were isolated at the site, and these proved to be clearly post-Monagrillo. This sequential relationship for western Panama, Monagrillo followed by Cocle-related wares, is, however, a mere beginning for the region. There is, obviously, a time gap between Monagrillo and Code which has not yet been filled. The Harvard University party discovered a new ceramic complex in the area which they are naming "Sarigua," but as yet this Sarigua style cannot be successfully fitted into any sequence picture. In addition to the Monagrillo and Sarigua excavations, stratitests were made in a deep (2.00 meters) Cocle-style refuse dump on the Santa Maria River. It is possible that some chronological information will be forthcoming from an anaylsis of the materials from these sites.
In response to a query about Sarigua pottery, Willey adds: "Sarigua pottery is unpainted or unslipped. The ware is • brown, thin, and quite hard. As a class it is thinner and harder pottery than anything else in the area. It probably approaches some of the fine Chiriqui wares in these qualities, but it is unlike Chiriqui in other characteristics. Vessel forms include collared jars or ollas. Decoration is by fine-line incision, punctation, and thin applique stripping." Mr. Morgan Smith, Mr. Robert Steinbach and Mr. Taizo Miake, students at Florida State University, are doing three months research in ethno-botany and archaeology in Panama. They are working mainly in the Guyami and Chono areas.
Dr. Hale G. Smith, Florida State University, is making an archaeological and ethnological reconnaissance of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, northern South America and Panama.

ON THE STATUS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
From June 9 to 20, 1952, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research conducted an International Symposium on Anthropology at its headquarters in New York, to attempt an evaluation of the present status of anthropology in all its phases. Alfred L. Kroeber acted as its president. The Symposium climaxed six months of preparation by a planning committee composed of Kroeber, Bennett, Hoijer, Kluckhohn, Mandelbaum, Strong, and Washburn. This committee determined upon 50 subjects covering all the fields of anthropological research, then chose an authority in each field to prepare a comprehensive summary of present knowledge in that field, known as an "inventory paper." The authors were chosen, "not only for breadth of knowledge in their special fields, but for their ability to synthesize the work of others, and for their broad conception of anthropology as a whole." In addition to the 51 authors of 50 inventory papers (37 from the United States, 10 from other nations, 4 absent), another group of 34 persons was invited (17 from the United States, 15 from other nations, 2 absent). The second group included those chosen to act as chairmen of individual sessions, or as discussants, or simply to lend their brains and opinions to the proceedings as problems developed. Of 85 persons invited altogether, from 18 countries, all but six were able to attend. The inventory papers were submitted to the Foundation in April, mimeographed, and sent to all participants well in advance of the meeting. Thus it was not necessary to take up time listening to authors read their papers, and the entire ten days of sessions were devoted to critical analysis and discussion. All discussion was recorded by stenotype and tape recorder.
The proceedings are to be published by the University of Chicago Press: the inventory papers as Vol. I, and the discussions as Vol. II. Archaeologists will be particularly interested in the following: two papers on Long-Range Dating (Oakley, Heizer); The Strategy of Culture History (Rouse); Old World Paleolithic (Movius); Old World Neolithic (Childe); results of the historical approach in the New World, South America (W. C. Bennett), Mesoamerica (Caso), and Anglo-America (Krieger); Archaeological Theories and Interpretations, Old World (Grahame Clark), and New World (Willey); Historical Approach in Anthropology (Strong); Ecology (Bates); and Technological Aids (Rowe).
The other papers and discussions cover a great range of subjects: primates, fossil man, race, historical and structural linguistics, style, evolution and progress, evolutionary theory, techniques in linguistics, techniques in psychology, interview techniques, genetics, universal culture, folklore, culture and personality, acculturation, community study, national character, questions of value, strategy of physical anthropology, relation of anthropology to social sciences and humanities, applied human biology, growth and constitution; and applied anthropology in medicine, teaching, industry, and government (United States, British Africa, Netherlands, and United Nations). A final summary and integration was provided by Kroeber at the close of the sessions.
While it can hardly be expected that all of these farflung subjects, each with innumerable special problems of procedure and analysis, could be adequately reviewed even in the space of two weeks, such a stock-taking marks a most constructive forward step in the history of anthropological research. Two principal themes guided the discussions: 'What do we know now? What should be done next to increase our knowledge?
The writers of inventory papers approached their subjects in a variety of different ways so that the results are somewhat difficult to compare. The papers by Heizer, Krieger, and Rowe, are catalogues of specific data, while others are general and philosophical in varying degrees. As examples of the interesting ideas sown throughout this group of studies, we might mention Oakley's classification of relative and absolute dates into eight types, suggesting a technique which could be fruitfully applied to warn the reader of the basis on which a given date rests; and a distinction drawn by Rouse between "classes" (hypothetical groups of artifacts arrived at by sorting in the light of every conceivable descriptive observation) and "types" (groups set up on the basis of selected criteria). Many of us have at some time or other set up "types" and then used them as if they were "classes." The discussion at the actual sessions of the Symposium tended to concern itself with theoretical questions and the interrelations of the different branches of anthropology. The fact that the field of archaeology overlaps at some point with every other branch of anthropology, even with linguistics, emerged quite clearly from the remarks presented.
The Wenner-Gren Foundation, through its Director of Research, Paul C. Fejos, approached the Symposium idea with characteristic vigor and provided every conceivable facility, including the travel and living expenses of-all participants. As a fitting close for the session, at the banquet on the last evening the participants honored Director Fejos for his effective labors in advancing anthropology during the past decade.

KIRK BRYAN MEMORIAL FUND
The following communication, of interest to North American archaeologists as well as to geologists, has been received from H. T. U. Smith, Geology Department, University of Kansas, and is heartily endorsed by the editorial staff of American Antiquity: "Many friends of the late Professor Bryan have expressed the wish that a suitable memorial to him be established. It is generally felt that an appropriate memorial must be of lasting value and interest, should be aimed at stimulating work in the broad fields of research to which Professor Bryan contributed, and should represent his wide circle of friends in the different sciences. After informal discussion with a representative group of friends, colleagues, and former students, it appears that the establishment of a fund to support a Kirk Bryan Award is the preferred means of providing for the desired type of memorial.
"We are pleased to report that the Geological Society of America has agreed to administer a Bryan Memorial Fund, and to institute a Kirk Bryan Award, assuming this to be the plan which meets with general approval. It is intended that the award be made, at suitable intervals, for distinguished contributions to geomorphology or related fields in which Professor Bryan was actively interested. Provisional terms governing the memorial fund and the award include: "1. The Kirk Bryan Award will be made to the author or authors of a published paper of distinction advancing the science of geomorphology or some At one of the sessions of Section H (Anthropology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Philadelphia last December, attention was called to the fact that American scholars who are interested in the archaeology of the . Old World -classical archaeologists, anthropologists, Egyptologists, Near Eastern archaeologists, and others who approach the subject from a background of history, linguistics or fine artsfor the most part have little contact with one another.
It was the consensus of the meeting that some simple and inexpensive organization might be formed to bring these people more in touch with one another and enable them to share information of value to them all. Some suggested activities were the preparation of a list or directory of the persons interested and the publication of annual bibliographies (selected and annotated) and annual reports of archaeological field work in all parts of Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania and for all periods. Informal preliminary talks with many archaeologists later confirmed the impression that such an organization would be welcomed. related field, as Pleistocene geology. Preference will be given to younger men. "2. The award to the author of the selected paper will include a cash stipend for encouragement of research, of whatever magnitude is deemed appropriate by the Society; the amount may vary from time to time depending on the proceeds available from the Kirk Bryan Memorial Fund.
"3. The recipient of the award will be selected by a committee appointed by the Society.
"4. The award generally will be made annually, but in any particular year may be withheld if no suitable paper is decided on, or if available funds are considered insufficient for the award. . . . "5. The paper constituting the basis of the Award must fulfill the following requirements. a. The paper will deal with geomorphology or with a bordering field, but related to geomorphology. b. The paper will have been published not more than 5 years prior to its selection for the Award." It is thought that a fund of some $5,000 will make possible an award appropriate for its intended purpose. Contributions and pledges of up to $100 each have been received already. Support for the memorial fund is being solicited at this time. Contributions may be sent directly to the Geological Society of America, 419 West 117th St., New York 27, earmarked for the Kirk Bryan Memorial Fund.
For further exploration of this possibility, a committee has been formed, consisting of members appointed by five different organizations, as follows: The first meeting of this committee was held early in July, 1952, and a statement of proposed plans will probably be mailed at a later date to a large list of persons who might be interested. The committee will welcome suggestions, which may be addressed to Lauriston Ward, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., or to any other member of the committee.